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Here are the historical accounts of shark attacks that happened on August 15 Date Name Sex Age Time Country Area Location Activity Injury Species Sp_Length 1 15-Aug-2012 tourist from Germany M 31 USA Alabama Gulf Shores Wading or swimming Lacerations to leg 2... read more

Would-be beachgoers near Barcelona faced a brief ban after a shark scare shut down six beaches for a day, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Three small blue sharks, between one and 1.5 metres (five feet) long, were sighted by lifeguards on Tuesday, prompting two local... read more

Here are the historical accounts for shark attacks that happened on July 11 Date Name Sex Age Time Country Area Location Activity Injury Species Sp_Length 1 11-Jul-2013 Barbara Corey F 63 15h30 USA North Carolina Holden Beach , BRUNSWICK COUNTY Wading bite wound on... read more

None of these people ever participated in Shark Finning. Shark Conservation doesn’t want us to care about these people only the sharks being killed. These people were all conservation minded people only briefly visiting the ocean. Fisherman kill sharks not ocean... read more

Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 02. May 2014 The latest Annual Report on the Status of U.S. Fisheries has just been released. A PDF-file of the Status of Stocks 2013 Report can be downloaded here. The three tables below provide an overview of the status of 5 shark... read more

SAS Peoples International Shark Attack File and the International Shark Attack File At our sister site http://sharkattackfile.info we added a new feature. We took all the incidents from 1997 to current and displayed them in an easy to understand yearly table. We also... read more

International Shark Attack File The International Shark Attack File is considered as having the most complete listing of shark attacks worldwide. SO THEY SAY – WE DON’T… The worldwide committee of shark attack experts at the AES are. Shark Attack... read more

Costa Rica News – The trial against Kathy Tseng, a Taiwanese-Costa Rican businesswoman, was the first time for Costa Rica to show in their legal system that they the Taiwanese mafia no longer made the decisions about shark finning in Costa Rica and that the government... read more

Last week 9-year old Sebastian Cozzan received over 8o stitches to his left leg after a shark attack at John D. MacArthur Park. Strange as it may seem, his father, David Cozzan was bit in the same area 20 years ago, with much less damage.... read more

Shark attack survivor Frank Wacha is catching some backlash for adding shark to his restaurant’s menu this coming weekend. Mr. Wacha commorates each anniversary of his bite by serving shark at his establishment. This year, he has been getting some push back from... read more

Christopher Neff was involved – Kill all sharks so I can make more money and get my degree. March 5th, 2014 Sea Shepherd has failed in its bid to secure a court injunction to force the West Australian government to suspend its controversial shark catch-and-kill... read more

As my third year anniversary approaches I reflect on some of the great things that have come from my attack. Firstly, everything if better. To clarify this I mean, as I lay after my attack dying from loss of blood I was aware that I would never see the people I love... read more